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AURÉLIE LAFLAMME'S DIARY

V8 - DOWN TO EARTH

Original Title

Le journal d'Aurélie Laflamme - Tome 8 Les pieds sur terre

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France, Germany, Portugal.

One of the biggest hits in Quebec literature! 8 volumes, a million copies sold, 2 successful teen movies.

Aurélie Laflamme is a 14-year-old girl—a bit shy, pretty funny and very clumsy—who feels like she's been left behind on Earth by some extraterrestrials after an intergalactic journey! Aurélie is still grieving the loss of her father. Her sense of humor and her determination helped her overcome this ordeal. But once you turn 14, a whole new range of explosive emotions inevitably show up to complicate your life. With humor and sensitivity Aurélie faces the hazards of teen life, such as friendship (and the sacrifices she must make to preserve it); academic success (loaded with obstacles, especially when you have the feeling they've transplanted squirrel synapses into your brain by mistake), the desire to see her mother find a boyfriend who's good for her and of course, love. The Diary of Aurélie Laflamme is the story of an ordinary teenager in search of her place in the universe.

VOLUME EIGHT

The time for procrastinating is over! With just a few months to go before finishing high
school, Aurélie has little time to devote to her personal life: she must fill out all her college
admissions forms, settle on a career path and, above all, manage to convince herself that all her neurons are still firing correctly. But with a prom to prepare for (difficult when you have no sense of style or particular talent for finding a handsome date), her ability to stay on task will be sorely tested. Other things are going on that require Aurélie to deviate from her plans. Between her mother's pregnancy and her friends' complicated love lives, she must confront her past, her fears and her personal wounds. In this volume, which marks the end of her fantastic and moving adventures, Aurélie discovers that to become the woman she wants to be, she must make peace with her past and accept herself as she truly is.
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Price :

14.95 $ CAD

ISBN :

9782761943796

Publication date :

April 2015

Category :

Fiction

Pages :

488 pages

Author

India Desjardins

India Desjardins loves chocolate, doesn't like having to move to
a new home, has invented lots of reasons not to go camping,
makes at least three mistakes a day and has a completely uncontrollable
brain. Here, the comparison ends with Aurélie Laflamme.
Following a ten-year career in journalism, the author
began doing what she most likes to do: writing fiction. Le journal
d'Aurélie Laflamme is written for teenagers, an audience that
she particularly likes. Her book Le Noël de Marguerite (illustrations
by Pascal Blanchet) won the prestigious 2014 Ragazzi
award for fiction at the Bologna Children's Book Fair.
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